It proved to be a frantic 24 hours for Mahesh Bhupathi and his brainchild, the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL)—a brand-new competition styled on cricket’s Indian Premier League. No sooner […]
It’s a good thing Roger Federer has an equable temperament because, these days, he can hardly draw breath without making headlines. We have to return to last Christmas Eve for […]
And so, as the ATP World Tour website pronounced a month ago, “the 2014 season begins.” Nothing new there, of course: The men’s tennis tour always starts its New Year […]
When Stan Wawrinka awoke on his first morning as a Grand Slam champion, the reality may finally have begun to sink in. For when he faced the cheering crowd of […]
It turned into one of the most unusual post-match press conferences of the year. Novak Djokovic had just beaten Roger Federer in his round-robin match at the World Tour Masters […]
The beginning of 2013 was hardly the most auspicious for Rafael Nadal. He was scheduled to return to the tennis stage for the first time since his gruelling—and what turned […]
As the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year awards loom on the Christmas horizon, the name on everyone’s lips brought this nation to a standstill one Sunday afternoon in mid-Summer: […]
Against of growing chorus of encouragement from within its ranks—most vociferously Andy Murray and Roger Federer—tennis is set to introduce an Athlete Biological Passport Programme from 2013. The sport’s key […]
The Davis Cup, the world’s largest annual international team competition, has involved over 5,000 players since it began in 1900. In this its centenary year, the tournament will see 130 […]
The Australian Open may once have been considered the poor relation of the Grand Slam circuit, with its distance from the beaten track of Europe and North America a step […]
